Jian Zhang
AI SW Engineering Director at Intel Corporation
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Zhang is an AI software engineering director with 13 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale open-source cloud, storage, big data, and ML stacks. At Intel he leads global teams delivering optimized analytics and E2E AI reference solutions—work that spans Spark-native SQL engines, Ray-based LLM infrastructure, and storage projects like Ceph and Swift. He combines deep hands-on performance engineering (persistent memory, RDMA, vectorization) with proven people leadership in recruiting, mentoring, and growing cross-functional engineering teams. Jian is comfortable translating customer needs into production-ready prototypes and reference solutions that improve developer productivity and lower ML/analytics deployment cost. Based in Shanghai, he holds a master’s in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is known for driving community engagement through events and practical open-source optimizations.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English
Github Skills (87)
python10
shuffle10
neural-architecture-search10
storage10
intel9
high-performance9
fuse9
rdma9
benchmark9
blob-storage9
backblaze9
optimization9
fat9
azure-blob-storage9
delta9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Jian-Zhang/CeTune
Apr 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
Jian-Zhang/OAP
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Optimized Analytics Package for Spark Platform
Contributions:14 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
analyticsoptimizedspark
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